May 4, 2008

Broadcast Date: 
May 5 2008

As Jews throughout the world celebrate the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel, and Palestinians mourn the Nakba (the catastrophe), a conversation with Israeli journalist Amira Hass; Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered at the Jewish Museum; a remembrance of the Living Theater's Hanon Reznikov.

Episode segments
  • Remembering Hanon Reznikov
    Theater, Arts & Culture, Obituaries

    Hanon Reznikov joined the Living Theater in the early 1970s, working as actor, director, technician, writer, and organizer. He had served as co-artistic director of the theater with Judith Malina since 1985; in recent years he had helped  the theater establish itself in its new home on Clinton Street.

     

    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Hanon Reznikov, co-artistic director of The Living Theater, passed away on May 3. We remember Hanon and rebroadcast his reading of an excerpt from A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945.

  • Commentary on Israel at 60 celebrations
    American Politics, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    In the midst of celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel, Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark comment on the failure of American Jews to acknowledge the shadow of 1948--the dispossession of 700,000 Palestinians and the continuing Occupation.

  • Amira Hass
    Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Anti-Semitism
    Israeli journalist Amira Hass writes for Haaretz and is the author of Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege and Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land.
    Alisa Solomon

    Amira Hass discusses stories unreported in the Western and Israeli media, the likelihood that no Israeli government has ever intended to roll back the settlements, and the place of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and anti-Semitism in the larger geo-political arena.

  • Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
    Visual Art, Arts & Culture
    Richard Meyer, guest curator of Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered, is Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    When Andy Warhol's Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century was first shown in 1980 at The Jewish Museum in New York City, Jewish viewers loved it but art critics savaged it. The new exhibit is enriched with material that places the portraits in their historical context. Curator Richard Meyer talks with us about why and how Warhol made the decision to do the portraits, how the subjects came to be selected, and what the reception suggests about Jewish identity then and now.